Author of books:Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel (1938)Origins of the New South, 1877–1913 (1951)Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction (1951)The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955)The Battle of Leyte Gulf (1965)American Counterpoint (1971, essays)Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981, editor)The Private Mary Chestnut (1984)Thinking Back: The Perils of Writing History (1986, memoir)